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My project has gotten a little farther. It’s not really much to speak of, as it’s more of a GUI practice thing than anything. I’d like to learn FXML so I can make interfaces which don’t look like a pile of shit. I mean, just look at it:

Look at that! It’s hideous! I can’t make a proper user interface because all the JavaFX layouts are made for is apparently just simple stacking and various table-based placements of simple GUI nodes.

I mean, for fuck’s sake, I can’t even add borders because I don’t even know how to do that without some sort of markup language. That’s why I would like to learn FXML, except I have been stalling since it looks like an absolutely horrible mess:

Okay, maybe it’s not that bad, but do I really want to bother learning another language? Wait… that’s what I said I needed to do. Maybe. Implicitly.